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Where high school football is life.
Publication: Newsday (Melville, NY) Publication Date: 03-OCT-06 |
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COPYRIGHT 2006 Newsday
Byline: Diane Werts
Oct. 3--Is it that football is life, or life is football? Probably both in "Friday Night Lights," NBC's rewardingly seasoned new drama series that's practically indistinguishable from the acclaimed feature film, except that it's better. The loosely translated characters are fuller and richer (renamed and distanced from the film based on the nonfiction book), while the nuanced portrait of a west Texas town that revolves around its high school team remains a restlessly throbbing piece of facsimile cinema-verite. (The real-life town of Odessa is now the fictionalized Dillon.) Writer-director Peter Berg returns to not so much downsize his big-screen panorama as...
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